justo

adj

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The verdict

“justo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #2,195. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,195
frequency rank, Portuguese
196
“J” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que age com justiça

Corpus desk

Index PT-justo · justo · Portuguese

justo · rank #2,195 · 7 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,195
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 196
  • PHOTO-FINISH Latina

Nearest frequency peer: Latina (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “justo”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “justo” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

justo vs juro
60% similar
justo vs jato
60% similar
justo vs just
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for justo
PropertyValue
Headwordjusto
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdjective
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,195
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “justo”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).justocai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “Latina” (#2,196), “inteligência” (#2,193), “levantar” (#2,197). Entre 196 lemas com “J”, “justo” fica em #2,195. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around justo, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,195 among 196 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for justo, with forms such as "jjusto", "jsuto", and "jusot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "juro", "jato", "just", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is justo, spelled J-U-S-T-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    que age com justiça
  2. 2
    apertado (principalmente em se falando de peças de roupa)

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how justo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Leis como a Constituição do Brasil de 1988 e o Estatuto das Cidades, de 2001, servem de exemplos mundiais de marco jurídico para a divisão justa da terra

This word in other languages

right(English)justo(Español)juste(Français)gerecht(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjusto
  • jsuto
  • jusot
  • jussto
  • justto
  • jutso
  • ujsto

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

jjusto1jsuto2jusot2jussto1justto1jutso2ujsto2
Edit distance from "justo"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justo"?
"justo" is spelled J-U-S-T-O.
What does "justo" mean?
As an adjective, "justo" means: que age com justiça
What words are commonly confused with "justo"?
"justo" is commonly confused with "juro", "jato", "just". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "justo" come from?
"justo" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "justo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Lucas#2,199aonde#2,175vinho#2,169renda#2,162

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

idiota7 variantsatuação7 variantsgrosso7 variantsletra7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list